Pinless clothes-line.



No. 820,615. I PATENTED MAY 15, 1906;

E. J. BARNETTB.

PINLESS CLOTHES LINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUHE22.1904.

EDWARD J. BARNETTE, OF FOREST CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.

PINLESS CLOTHES-LINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed June 22,1904. Serial No. 218,624.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BARNETTE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Forest City, in the county of Rutherford and State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pinless Clothes- Lines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes-lines; and the object is to provide a clothes-line of imroved construction to which clothes can be attached without the use of separate clothesins. p A further object of this invention is to provide an improved attaching device to be applied to a supporting-wire whereby clothes may be readily attached without the use of separate clothes-pins.

With the above objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in the claims, and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved attaching device; Fig. 2, an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing my attaching device applied to an ordinary clothes-line; Fig. 4, a view of a modification showing a section of clothes-line constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is a modification of Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a view showing the manner of twisting the two wires together at intervals in the line shown in Fig. 5.

My improved attaching device, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, consists of a straight length of wire bent into a series of tight twists 8, then formed into an open loop 9, then coiled into a plurality of extended twists 10 and 11, separated by a series of tight twists 12. The wire is then bent into an open loop 13, similar to the open loop 9, but bent in the opposite direction, and is finally formed into a series of tight twists 14. All of the twists 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14 are disposed in direct alinement, so that the device may be strung upon any ordinary clothes-line or straight length of wire 15, as shown in Fig. 3.

A number of attaching devices may be made from a single piece of wire, as shown in Fig. 4, in which instance the loop-wire 2 is coiled about the supporting-wire 1 and formed into loops 3 at intervals thereon, extending laterally therefrom on opposite sides in alternation. The loops 3 are arranged in pairs, one on each side of the support-wire 1, and

between the successive pairs of loops the wire 2 is wound around the support-wire in a plurality of extended twists 4, separated by a series of tight twists 5. Between each loop of the pairs the wire 2 is coiled tightly around wire 1, as at 6. In this instance the construction of the attaching device is the same as before described, with the exception that the said devices are formed of a continuous piece of wire.

In Fig. 5 I show a modification in which the two wires are intertwisted at the ends of the loops at 7 and centrally between said loops, as indicated at 7 this method of twisting the wires being shown in detail in Fig. 6, where it will be seen that the wires are so twisted that the supporting-wire has a bend or twist disposed between two bends or twists of the wire composing the attaching device.

When it is desired to fasten a piece of clothing on my line, a corner of the piece is passed into one of the loops 3 and then drawn into the loosely-coiled twists 4,- which serve as spring-clamps to hold the piece firmly in position. The function of the tight twists 5 and 7 is to prevent the twists 4 on one side thereof from being sprung apart when a piece of clothing is being forced into the corresponding twists 4 on the opposite side thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination witha supporting-line, of a device for attaching clothes thereto, consisting of a piece of wire formed with lateral bends or loops disposed on opposite sides of the supporting-line to receive the clothes and adjacent to each bend or loop and at a point between the same with coils in alinement to receive the supporting-line, and a series of extended coils between each loop and the intermediate coil.

2. A pinless clothes-line comprising a supporting-line, and a wire formed into clothesattaching devices consisting of loops disposed in pairs, with the loops of each pair positioned on the opposite sides of the supporting-line, said wire forming the attaching device being twisted around the supportingline between the loops of each pair and centrally between the pairs of loops in tight twists, and formed between each central coil and the adjacent loops with extended twists passing about the supporting-line.

3. A pinless clothes-line comprising a supporting-wire and a wire formed into clothescentral twist and the adjacent loops with ex- IO attaching devices consisting of loops disposed tended twists or coils passing about the supin pairs with the loops of each pair positioned porting-wire.

on the opposite sides of the supporting-wire, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 5 said wire forming the attaching devices and in the presence of two witnesses.

the supporting-wire being intertwisted be- EDWARD J. BARNETTE.

tween the loops of each pair, and centrally be- Witnesses tween the pans of loops, the wire forming the G. W. RoLLINs,

attaching device being formedbetween each W. W. HICKS. 

